HASAWA

The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (HSWA, HASWA or HASAWA) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (statute number 1974 c. 37) enacted in 1974 that set basic principles which must be followed by both employees and employers to help ensure a safe working environment.HASAWA was an act to make further provision for securing the health, safety and welfare of persons at work, for protecting others against risks to health or safety in connection with the activities of persons at work, for controlling the keeping and use and preventing the unlawful acquisition, possession and use of dangerous substances, and for controlling certain emissions into the atmosphere and to make further provision with respect to the employment medical advisory service (EMAS). It set up the Health and Safety Commission and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
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